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International Taekwon-Do Federation (ITF) is an international taekwondo organization founded on March 22, 1966, by Choi Hong Hi (Korean: 최홍희) in Seoul, South Korea. [1] The ITF was founded to promote and encourage the growth of the Korean martial art of taekwon-do .
Choi Hong-hi (Korean: 최홍희; 9 November 1918 – 15 June 2002) was a South Korean Army general, and martial artist who was an important figure in the history of the Korean martial art of Taekwondo, albeit controversial due to his introduction of taekwondo to North Korea.
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9th dan Taekwon-Do (ITF) Hwang Kwang-sung (born 13 September 1942) [ 1 ] is a South Korean grand master of Taekwon-Do, a notable officer of the International Taekwon-Do Federation (ITF), only president of KoreAmerica Taekwon-Do Union (KATU), founder and president of Unified International Taekwon-Do Federation.
[1] [2] [3] He was one of the twelve original masters of taekwondo of the Korea Taekwon-Do Association. [4] [5] Following a career in the South Korean military, Park emigrated to Canada in 1970. He was a key leader in the International Taekwon-Do Federation (ITF) under Choi Hong-hi, but founded the Global Taekwon-Do Federation in 1990 after ...
All the practitioners listed in this section are part of World Taekwondo. [65] [66] [67]Hadi Saei – Iranian councilor and former taekwondo athlete who became the most successful Iranian athlete in Olympic history and the most titled champion in this sport by winning 9 world class titles (three olympic titles in 2000 and 2004 and 2008, two world championships titles, four world cup titles and ...
[4] [5] Prior to forming his own Taekwondo organization he was a Vice Secretary of his father's ITF organization. [ 6 ] Choi Jung-hwa still works extensively promoting Taekwon-Do around the world and is accredited with introducing and developing Taekwon-Do in many Eastern European countries such as Poland, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Romania ...
Rhee Ki-ha founded the United Kingdom Taekwon-Do Association (UKTA) in 1967, [10] the Republic of Ireland Taekwon-Do Association in 1972, [2] at which time he was ranked 5th dan, [11] and the All European Taekwon-Do Association in 1979. [2] He was promoted to the rank of 7th dan either by 1973 [12] or in 1974, [6] [7] according to different ...